A PERVERT lecturer at a university in Birmingham, who secretly spied on women at a house he rented out by concealing cameras in air fresheners, has been ordered to register as a sex offender.

Paul Hwang, who taught business studies at University College Birmingham, had previously admitted a charge or voyeurism at the city’s crown court.

The 32-year-old, from Bayswater, London, has now been sentenced to a three-year community order and ordered to register as a sex offender for five years.

Judge Roderick Henderson told Hwang: “You had installed in the bathroom an air freshener which had concealed in it a CCTV camera, which allowed you to watch these young women get undressed in a place they had every reason to expect was private.”

James Turner, defending, said Hwang was a married man, although his wife currently lived in Australia, and it was likely his conduct would lead to the end of their relationship.

He said he had been suspended and then dismissed by the university and that the offence was committed against a background of depression and loneliness and the pressures of family and academic life.

Hwang’s barrister earlier called for him to undergo psychiatric tests to check if he suffered from a medical condition which compelled him to be a pervert.

Raglan Ashton said it was important to determine whether the defendant was suffering from a condition in which sufferers derive pleasure from viewing nudity of unsuspecting victims.